File 7 - Integration Project: EdPage

1 file (2 parts)

Records relating to the implementation of the Atex pagination tool, EdPage, as part of the Guardian and Observer integration project. The aim of the integration project was to integrate the newspapers' editorial and advertising systems to produce full electronic integrated colour pagination and to ensure a successful digital output of all pages, with colour content, to all printing sites.

Includes papers on preparations for the electronic page, January 1994 and automating page production flow, November 1994; ists of pages to be tested on EdPage, 20 January 1994; EdPage trial progress report, 21 January 1994; training schedules, February - June 1994; lists of proposed publication and section codes, February 1994; Guardian and Observer page schedules, February 1994; list of working party committees with remits for the integrated electronic mono page project, February - April 1994; notes and minutes of project committee and working party meetings, January - November 1994; progress reports, March 1994 - June 1994; a budget report, March 1994; draft sale agreement marked-up with changes by Lovell Whte and Durrant (Guardian solicitors), May 1994; project timetable, May 1994 and plan, August 1994; lists of outstanding project issues, August - November 1994; papers on EdPage 1:5:2 and 1:6 environment upgrades, 15 March 1995 and minutes of the colour integration project meetings, July 1995.

Also contains internal correspondence and memorandums concerning the costs of implementing the full EdPage project, February 1994; levels of EdPage training available, February 1994; EdPage features, March 1994; integration project progress, March - May 1994; Atex project management, March 1994; Architect to Xpress Xtension specifications, August 1994; the production flow of integration project pages, August 1994; colour integration, september 1994 and EdPage warranty extension, September 1994.

Correspondents include: Ian Ashcroft; David Hall (Atex sales and marketing manager); Angela Lees; Ian Wright; Graham Shaw, (Atex managing director) and Fiona Morris.

Creator: Guardian Newspapers Limited; Editor's Office; Ian Wright

Subject to access restrictions in line with the Data Protection Act.